Sculptor
- Giovanni Maria De RossiHe was paid for eight statues
from August 1667 to November 1668. Attributed to Rossi because
of his elongated structure, and contours of drapery.

Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertineAlong with St Benignus,
this statue is derived from existing statues of Roman
prisoners. These were often represented in pairs like the two
saints placed here.

St Jerome knew St Malchus
personally at Chalcis, in Syria. He had been kidnapped by
Bedouin and sold as a slave. His captor give him a woman to be
his wife, but they lived in continence for seven years before
escaping together. St Malchus then returned as a hermit
to the Syrian Desert.